Sheriff’s Office: Man found dead on beach appears to have committed suicide

By Scott HarperFor South Strand News

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office says a man whose body was found on the beach in Garden City Tuesday morning appears to have died from self-inflicted injuries.

The body was found around 11:30 a.m. by a person walking on the beach, according to Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Carrie Cuthbertson.

She said the person found is a white man who “appears to have succumbed to a self-inflicted knife wound.”

The autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday morning at Grand Strand Hospital.

The man’s name has not been released.

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